Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Does it frost in Dhaka?

No frost days appear in the climate dataset used here. Across 30 years of daily minimum-temperature estimates for this grid cell, no night reached the 0°C threshold. This does not establish that frost has never occurred in the town or cannot occur in your garden. Terrain, local observations and the current forecast still matter.

Frost nights on record

None

In all 30 years of the record.

Lowest temperature in this dataset

4.4°C (39.9°F)

The lowest daily minimum in the site's gridded record.

Margin above freezing

4.4°C (7.9°F)

How far the record low still sat above 0°C.

How close it has come

Compare the lowest temperature in the dataset with the freezing threshold. The minimum estimate for Dhaka reached 4.4°C (39.9°F), which is still 4.4°C (7.9°F) above freezing. That is the lowest value in this record, not a forecast or an all-time station record.

The cold end of the record. A frost would need the first row to reach 0°C; no such day appears in this dataset.
Measure	Temperature	What it means
Coldest night on record	4.4°C	The lowest single reading in 30 years.
Coldest night of an average year	8.5°C	Each year has a coldest night; this is their average. It is the figure the hardiness zone is built from.
Coolest month's average night	12°C	An ordinary night in the coolest part of the year.

The gap between those first two rows — 4.1°C (7.4°F) — is how much colder the exceptional year runs than the average one. A wide gap means the record is carried by rare events; a narrow one means the climate here simply does not reach freezing.

The nearest place that does freeze

The closest town in this dataset with frost in its record is Shillong, India, about 255 km away, where the last spring frost typically falls around 23 January. At that distance frost is not a local risk to plan around. It is context for how unusual a frost-free climate is, not a warning.

What sets the season instead

Everywhere that freezes, the calendar is written by frost: sow after the last one, harvest before the first. With that constraint gone, the limits here are heat, daylength and rain. 7 months of the year average a daily high at or above 30°C, peaking in April around 30.2°C (86.3°F), which is where cool-season crops such as lettuce, peas and brassicas struggle — they bolt in heat rather than die in cold, so the sowing window closes at the warm end of the year rather than the cold one.

Accumulated warmth is the honest substitute for a season length here: 5,831 growing degree days above 10°C across the full twelve months, because there is no frost to close the count at either end. Elsewhere that total has to be earned between two frost dates.

See what to sow in Dhaka, month by month →

Every month of the year, above freezing

The last column is the evidence for everything above it: the average number of nights per month at or below 0°C, which is zero in every row.

Mean monthly temperature across the record. Months shown in blue average at least one air frost.

Monthly means and average number of frost nights.
Month	Mean low	Mean high
January	12°C	24.8°C
February	15.4°C	29°C
March	20.3°C	34°C
April	24.4°C	36°C
May	26°C	34.1°C
June	26.6°C	31.7°C
July	26.4°C	31.1°C
August	26.1°C	30.9°C
September	25.6°C	30.5°C
October	23.3°C	29.9°C
November	18.2°C	27.8°C
December	13.9°C	25°C

Figures are derived from NASA POWER daily minimum and maximum temperatures at this location. A frost night is counted whenever the daily minimum reaches 0°C or below. See how these numbers are worked out.

Nearby

Compare with places close by

Motijheel Zone 11b 2 km No reliable frost Paltan Zone 11b 3 km No reliable frost Azimpur Zone 11b 3 km No reliable frost Kafrul Zone 11b 9 km No reliable frost Bhatara Zone 11b 11 km No reliable frost Narayanganj Zone 11b 15 km No reliable frost Tungi Zone 11b 20 km No reliable frost Savar Zone 11b 22 km No reliable frost

Seasonal context

Rainfall and the growing season in Dhaka

July has the highest average precipitation (437 mm); January has the lowest (9 mm). Compare this pattern with the planting windows and your water supply.

Jan 9 mm

Feb 21 mm

Mar 52 mm

Apr 148 mm

May 294 mm

Jun 383 mm

Jul 437 mm

Aug 358 mm

Sep 284 mm

Oct 184 mm

Nov 38 mm

Dec 18 mm

During wetter months, check that beds and containers drain after heavy rain. During drier months, plan how you will keep seeds and new transplants watered. Monthly averages can hide long dry spells and intense storms; they do not show soil moisture, humidity or this week's weather.

Frost-free does not mean every month is suitable. In tropical and monsoon climates, rainfall, heat, drainage and the cultivar can set the practical growing season. Match the temperature window to these conditions and check advice from a local grower before buying planting material.

Source: NASA POWER, corrected MERRA-2 precipitation, 2001–2020. Values are approximate monthly totals, including the water equivalent of snow, from the nearest 0.5° × 0.625° grid cell. This reference period differs from the temperature record. Rainfall provides context and does not change the calculated planting dates. Method and limitations.